Posted: 1/5/2008 11:57:32 AM EDT
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Putting together a system upgrade but am totally lost on which power supply to go with. Probably going to go with the following components: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2 65W GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 ATX AMD Motherboard CORSAIR 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 Not sure on video yet, but won't be anything big as I don't do much gaming. Mainly photo work in addition to spreadsheets, design work, database work, etc. Will also be likely running three SATA Hard drives and a pair of optical drives. Was considering this supply www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817103941 because it seems like it has decent features/capabilities and a good price with rebate. Is that overkill for what I need? A good hedge for future upgrades? Thoughts? Probably going to Vista just so I don't fall behind the curve, unless it's not worth it (I've read arguments both ways). Just worried about software support there. Thanks. |
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With what you are planning to do with your computer, that power supply should be fine. I think 500watts is the bare minimum for a computer. (with the new processors and video cards that are out there, even the cheap ones) ETA = I just built a new computer and I went with XP Pro 64bit. Vista just hasn't impressed me at all. |